One member of NSYNC remembers when his parents called him to say a fan had shown up at their doorstep to tell him he was a father.
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"[My mom] puts her on the phone... she's like 'Hey, I'm such and such. I don't want any money. We met a while back,' and it was the first performance we ever did as NSYNC, which was around 1996," recalls Joey Fatone.
He added, "What this woman told me is that we met, we hung out, we had a great time that night, and then I hadn't seen her since. I'm thinking to myself, 'My career is over. Somebody's telling me I have a kid. Is it my kid?'"
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PEOPLE reported that Fatone shared the story on the docuseries Boy Band Confidential: Deep Cuts, which he also executive-produced.
The former member of NSYNC goes on to say that the woman who had appeared at his doorstep eventually began legal action, suing him for paternity.
"Then all of a sudden, I get a piece of paper with a birth certificate with her name, my name on it, the footprint, all of it," said Fatone. "My mother's losing her mind."
But Fatone noticed something unusual about the document.
"The font was in one type and then my name was in a completely different type of font, and you can see that it was white out on it," he explained.
"The woman was just making the whole thing up. Basically, she wanted me to get a paternity test, take a photo of all of us walking into it, so she would get paid by whoever wanted to list the story. And that was the only reason why."
Speaking of Unusual Paternity Stories...
Last year, a judge in Tennessee dismissed a lawsuit against Billy Ray Cyrus. It was filed by a woman claiming to be the biological mother of Miley Cyrus earlier this year.
The woman who filed the suit alleges that she gave birth to the Hannah Montana star when she was just 12 years old. She then entered what she describes as a "private adoption agreement" with Billy Ray and his ex-wife, Tish Cyrus.
As part of the agreement, she would have the right to name Miley and act as her nanny and piano teacher. Billy Ray called the claims "false and absurd," and the judge dismissed the case with prejudice on Dec. 5.
